The Freedom of Expression awards in the Journalism Awards category recognize investigative journalists who, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and stories from around the globe that may otherwise have passed unnoticed. These are this year’s nominees.

Drug trafficking, and the violence it engenders, is Guatemala’s latest threat to freedom of speech. In her exclusive letter for Sampsonia Way, elPeriódico’s Claudia Méndez Arriaza uses her inside-the-newsroom perspective to compare the risk of being a journalist today with the risks of reporting during Guatemala’s bloody civil war.

“To Die a Little” is a short story by Eduardo Halfon. Born in Guatemala City, Halfon is an acclaimed author of novels and short stories. He was named one of 39 Best Young Latin American Writers at the 2007 Bogota Hay Festival.

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Sampsonia Way is an online magazine sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh that seeks to protect and advocate for writers who may be endangered, to educate the public about threats to writers and literary expression, and to create a community in which endangered writers thrive and literary culture is a valued part of life.